Like so many of us, Marcus Chamberland owes his very existence to beer. One night in Texas in October 1956, a horribly mismatched married couple drank enough Schlitz to forget they were married to each other and, nine months after a night of wild abandon, a snarling baby Marcus was unleashed on an unsuspecting world. Some years later, in the back seat of a 1970 Chevelle SS, he would have his first beer -- coincidentally, a Schlitz Tall Boy -- giving birth to a whole boozy world to be explored. After a period of bouncing his face off of a number of hard surfaces -- walls, doors, floors, fists, beer bottles -- while acquainting himself with this magical elixir, Marcus ultimately discovered the virtue of quality over quantity, availing himself first of several European brews but becoming a fan of Shiner Bock and then the array of microbrews offered by Houston-based craft brewer St. Arnold. Then in 2003, Marcus moved to Colorado and quickly discovered he'd been transported to beer heaven, lately rebranded as The Napa Valley of Beer. Upon the retirement of longtime Colorado beer legend Dick Kreck from The Denver Post, Marcus in 2007 became the newspaper's beer reviewer, informed by his decades of imbibing and an unusually doglike sense of smell to point readers toward new, boundary-pushing brews that almost exclusively were made in the U.S. and most often were Colorado products. Marcus is excited at the opportunity to review beers as often as he likes in the limitless frontier of blogging for The Post.

Emilie Rusch covers retail and commercial real estate for The Post. A Wisconsin native and Mizzou graduate, she moved to Colorado in 2012. Before that, she worked at a small daily newspaper in South Dakota. It's the one with Mount Rushmore.